Greetings from the Impact Staff, all our other World Changers Family, Brenda, and me! I am so grateful for you and all you do to make a difference for so many in a world that is so troubled!

     If you ordered my new heart book, Moving Your Invisible Boundaries, and you have a current email address on file with us you have already received your eBook copy. I hope you have begun to consume, absorb, and digest the wealth of useful information in that book.  I encourage you to read and reread the entire book several times. There are many glaring concepts that will jump out at you your first time through. Later you will find so many subtle elements that will make a monumental difference in how you function in daily life. Then, over time you will find that you need to refer back to specific issues as they arise in your own life.

     Please do not think that because you have heard me teach about the heart or because you have gone through a few of the Heart Physics modules that you have mastered the material or its use in daily life. After forty years I am still learning new things. And it isn’t just a matter of learning new information; it’s about learning the subtle ways this information is applicable in real life. After all, real life is the goal! If we can’t get what we believe to work in real life it is of no value.

     There is an ancient Chinese meditation called Iron Shirt. You may have seen it. One of the most popular stunts first seen in America was a man lying down and allowing a truck to run over him yet do no damage. Or, if you go to a martial arts exhibition you may see someone hit with a board so hard the board breaks, yet it does no damage to the individual. I once saw a man place a spear tip on the soft part of his neck and then lean over with all his body weight on the spear tip. It didn’t even break the skin.

     Most Christians would think this is done by some demonic force; it is actually, however, man exercising authority over his own body by the use of what most people call “mind over matter.” The point of this is that while this is possible when there are no other distractions, very few people can do it while distracted by other outside activities. Thousands of Chinese were killed in a famous battle after they had perfected these techniques in the solitude of their remote training retreat. They thought they were impervious to the weapons of their enemy, but when the enemy attacked they were cut down. They couldn’t get their technique to work in real life. I see this every day with Christians who can spout information about grace, faith righteousness, and the heart, but they don’t know how to get it to work in real life.

     Moving Your Invisible Boundaries provides a biblical basis for understanding the functions of the heart! It is the cornerstone of what I have taught for 40 years: unless you believe it is real in your heart it is not real between you and God! Faith, love, good works, dead works, everything we do is determined by what is in our heart! The ability to understand God’s voice and leading is the byproduct of the beliefs of our heart. Whether we are praying or just talking, worshiping or merely singing is determined by what is happening in our heart!

     As we begin to live from the heart we start valuing quality over quantity. We become more concerned with actually believing what we know rather than always trying to learn more information. We no longer consider sitting in the same room with another person as time together; now we desire to be emotionally present, aware, and in touch! Sex becomes love-making, kissing becomes connecting! Everything changes when we live from our heart!

     There were several reasons I waited so long to write this book. One primary reason is I needed to know both biblically and biologically if there is a difference between the subconscious mind and the heart. There is and it is significant! Any type of meditative work can help with subconscious memories. However, believing and experiencing the truth about who we are in Christ is the only cure for beliefs of the heart!

     My second concern was about what needed to go into the book. I could have made this book a “wow-factor” of titillating information about how the heart interacts with the body and the world around us. It could have been filled with astonishing scientific facts that would have been relevant, important, and useful. But I had a concern. I have witnessed how people have scanned through Grace: The Power to Change, missed the entire point, and dove into crazy preaching and teaching.

     I wanted this book to be very basic, very biblical, and very, very foundational. I wanted it to be the root of what a person needed to launch into a healthy pursuit of developing their heart. I believe that has been accomplished! I believe that will be the fruit! I believe this will add an entirely new dimension to the quality of your life. After all, being spiritually minded (inwardly focused) is where we experience God’s life and peace. It is here that we become subject to the laws of God, which are the laws of life (Rom. 8:5-8)!

     As we develop inner awareness as a way of life every situation is experienced from a different perspective than before. We learn from everything.  I’ve shared with you some of the things I’ve learned from raising and training my puppy, Hoochie Bratcher Richards.  We call him Hooch. He is six months old and weighs about 55 pounds.  At six months puppies tend to go into “teenage mentality.” They suddenly forget all of their training, become resistant, and tend to deny authority. With Hooch this is especially challenging. His breed was developed for hunting bear, wild boar, and other game native to the South Eastern United States. This is a dog that, when in a fight with a bear or boar, will not give up unless they are killed. So, how do you win over a dog that will not back down from a bear?

     We know that animals (much like babies) do not respond to the words we say, it is the energy we project. They feel our energy. They know if we are confident, calm, and in charge. They also know if we are excited, intimidated, or afraid.  Most human trainers simply resort to force to bring about the desired obedience. When they try that with certain breeds it produces a dangerous dog. So how do you win?

     Working with a dog is so much like operating faith. It doesn’t matter if you say the words. What are you expecting to happen inwardly? That is what the animal feels and responds to more than our words, how loud or how strong we say them. An angry tone to a dog usually means, “Oh, so you are so insecure you are yelling, so you are not in control.” The result is they will not trust or follow you. They want to follow the person who is calm, strong, and in control!

     So, in most areas I project calm, assertive energy when I speak to Hooch. Anytime I do not give him verbal commands I just “will” for something to be done and he responds. In other words, I want it to be done. I am sure it will be done and I just look at him and he knows. But then there are those areas where I find myself trying to put force into my voice to convince him that I am in charge. That never works.

     The other day I was doing just that. But because I try to listen to my heart as much as possible I suddenly had a sense that I can’t fully explain. I saw myself speaking commands to my dog and those words were generated from my mind. I literally saw them beginning from my head and going out. They had no power, and he did not obey. I paused, went to my heart zone, spoke the same words, and this time he obeyed. Afterwards as I was pondering this I saw that the same thing happens when I attempt to operate faith. The difference in the outcome is where the words originate.

     All of this is just one small example of how God will take you to a new place of teaching you what you need to have powerful faith. But it can only happen as you learn to listen inwardly. The Holy Spirit wants to show you things you have never imagined. The more you learn to listen the more you’ll experience incredible development in amazingly short times. My new series for the month of May will help you develop ears that can hear and recognize God’s voice in ways you never before knew possible.

     I love this journey we are making together in God. I love the fact that we are making our lives count by giving ourselves to a cause that is outside of ourselves. I love the fact that we are helping people who would otherwise be trapped in a life of religious bondage. I love the fact that together we are changing the way the world sees God!

 

Blessings,

Jim Richards